"Hello, Dolly! (film) Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 American romantic comedy musical film based on the Broadway production of the same name. Directed by Gene Kelly and adapted and produced by Ernest Lehman, the cast includes Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Danny Lockin, Tommy Tune, Fritz Feld, Marianne McAndrew, E. J. Peaker and Louis Armstrong (whose recording of the title tune had become a number-one single in May 1964). The film follows the story of Dolly Levi (a strong-willed matchmaker), as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly ""well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire"" Horace Vandergelder."
"for 2,844 performances, and was for a time the longest-running musical in Broadway history. During that decade, ten ""blockbuster"" musicals played over 1,000 performances and three played over 2,000, helping to redefine ""success"" for the Broadway musical genre. Sources: Tams-Witmark Guide to Musical Theatre Masterworks Broadway As the 19th becomes the 20th century, all of New York City is excited because widowed but brassy Dolly Gallagher Levi is in town (""Call On Dolly""). Dolly makes a living through what she calls ""meddling"" – matchmaking and numerous sidelines, including dance instruction and mandolin lessons (""I Put My Hand In""). She is"
"of the same name starring Shirley Booth. The story of a meddlesome widow who strives to bring romance to several couples and herself in a big city restaurant also features prominently in the 1891 hit musical ""A Trip to Chinatown"". The role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in the musical was originally written for Ethel Merman, but Merman turned it down, as did Mary Martin (although each eventually played it). Merrick then auditioned Nancy Walker. Eventually, he hired Carol Channing, who then created in Dolly her signature role. Director Gower Champion was not the producer's first choice, as Hal Prince and"
"Margot Fonteyn, Marlene Dietrich and Margaret Thatcher. At one point he had his own nightclub in Hanover Square, and also performed on London's West End. In the 1960s he was among Britain's highest-paid entertainers. In the 1970s, he owned the Swan, a noted inn at Streatley on the River Thames. In 1982 he played Dolly Levi in the musical ""Hello, Dolly!"". He also has the distinction of being the only man to take over a woman's role in the West End theatre when he replaced Avis Bunnage in ""Oh, What a Lovely War!"" and he was until his death still"
"Dolly (TV series) Dolly is an American variety show starring Dolly Parton that aired on ABC from September 27, 1987 to May 10, 1988. The show was an attempt at a traditional variety show, featuring music, comedy skits and various guest stars. It had been roughly a decade since the last successful variety series, ""The Carol Burnett Show,"" ""The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour"" and ""Cher"" had gone off the air, and it was regarded as a gamble to try to revive the genre. Banking on Parton's talent and appeal, however, ABC paid the performer a reported $44 million for"
"standards and pop tunes from the Great American Songbook. Broadway Stories reaffirms her mastery of such material against gorgeous backdrops provided by the 64-piece Prague Symphony Orchestra. From the first track to the last, Patty shows an easy command of the Broadway idiom, applying her formidable pipes to material worthy of her talents."" In January, 2012, Patty starred as Dolly Levi in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's world premiere concert stage version of the Broadway musical, ""Hello, Dolly!"" to rave reviews. In 2012 and 2013, Patty was a judge and mentor for the Songbook Academy, a summer intensive for high school"
"one of the few performers nominated for a Tony Award for work in a revue (rather than a traditional book musical); she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for the short-lived revue ""Show Girl"". Channing came to national prominence as the star of Jerry Herman's ""Hello, Dolly!"" (1964). Her performance as Dolly Levi won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She recalls that playwright Thornton Wilder so loved the musical, which was based on his play, ""The Matchmaker"", that he came once a week. He also planned to rewrite his 1942 play ""The Skin of"
"expressed interest in a new production of the play, which Wilder extensively rewrote and rechristened ""The Matchmaker"". The most significant change was the expansion of a previously minor character named Dolly Gallagher Levi, who became the play's centerpiece. A widow who brokers marriages and other transactions in Yonkers, New York at the turn of the 20th century, she sets her sights on local merchant Horace Vandergelder, who has hired her to find him a wife. After a series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities, secret rendezvous behind carefully placed screens, separated lovers, and a trip to night court, everyone finds"
"Dolly! Dolly! was an American variety show starring Dolly Parton that aired in first-run syndication during the 1976–77 season. In the mid-1970s, Parton was approached by Bill Graham, president of Show Biz, Inc., the same company that produced ""The Porter Wagoner Show"" (on which Parton had costarred for seven years), and soon afterward the syndicated variety show ""Dolly"" was born. The show boasted a budget of $85,000 per episode, an impressive sum at the time for a syndicated series. (It was, in fact the most expensive show to be produced out of Nashville to that point.) A variety of Nashville"
"dove] is heard in our land."" (2:10–13) On December 8, 1943, the show opened at the Morosco Theatre and ran for 1,557 performances, making it the 51st longest-running show and the 9th longest-running play in Broadway history. In 1947, the stage play was adapted into a film of the same name starring Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, and Wayne Morris. The story begins on a Friday afternoon in early April as aspiring actress Sally Middleton has just finished moving into her new apartment in the East Sixties. Even though she has just left her home in Joplin, Missouri, for"
"Tour 1976-78 CHAMPLAIN / CTV The Julie Show Variety Series (44 episodes) 1976-78 CHAMPLAIN / CTV Loto Canada Variety Specials (10 episodes) 1977 DISTORTED REFLECTIONS Dolly Parton Concert Wardrobe (with Patrick Reeves-Aaron) 1976 CBC / HARTLEY The Shari Lewis Special Variety Special 1976 CTV / GLENWARREN The David Steinberg Show Comedy Series (22 episodes) 1976 CTV / BLYE / GLENWARREN The Bobby Vinton Show Variety Series (24 episodes) 1975 HALLMARK / CBS / G.W. Valley Forge Drama Special (Key to Anne Roth) 1975 ABC / CTV Welcome To My Nightmare Variety Special with Alice Cooper 1975 CHAMPLAIN / CTV Kidstuff"
"Dorléac for episode ""Mob Scene"" Nominated: ""Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series"": Michael York for episode ""Daddy Dearest"" and ""Stiffed"" Nominated: ""Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series: Cheri Ruff, Carl Bailey, Stephen Elsbree for episode ""Daddy Dearest"" 2000: Nominated: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series: Holland Taylor for playing Letitia Devine. The Lot The Lot is an American comedy-drama series that aired for two seasons and 17 episodes on the AMC from 1999 to 2001. It profiled the fictional studio Sylver Screen Pictures during the 1930s and the pursuits of its classic stars (such as Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo"
"replaced Jerry Dodge in the role of Barnaby Tucker in ""Hello, Dolly!"" in the winter of 1965, and went across the United States on six traveling productions with several actresses playing Dolly Levi, including Betty Grable, Ginger Rogers, Eve Arden, Dorothy Lamour and Anne Russell. He remained in the role for the movie version of ""Hello, Dolly!"", and when filming for that ended, continued the role in the Broadway version of ""Hello, Dolly!"", where he worked with both Ethel Merman and Phyllis Diller until it closed on December 27, 1970. He had mixed feelings about Carol Channing as Dolly, about"
"initially disapproves of her FBI agent son's girlfriend. Among her later television roles, Daly reunited with ""Cagney & Lacy"" costar Sharon Gless in a 2010 guest role on the series ""Burn Notice"". In the fall of 2018, Daly joined the cast of the revival of the ""Murphy Brown"" series, playing the character of Phyllis, who runs the bar which Murphy and her coworkers often patronize. Daly's first Broadway role was in 1967 in a short-lived play, ""That Summer, That Fall"". In 1988, Daly appeared on the Dolly Parton TV variety show ""Dolly"", and sang (at her request) a duet with"
"""The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent"" (1957), ""Al Capone"" (1959), and ""G.I. Blues"" (1960). Her television appearances include episodes of ""Flight"", ""Dragnet"" (1958–1959), ""M Squad"" (1959), ""Johnny Ringo"" (1960), ""The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"" (1960), ""77 Sunset Strip"" (1960), and ""The Tab Hunter Show"" (1960) She was among the models who appeared at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Home Show in June 1954. She also posed for several album covers and men's magazines, including ""Playboy"", in which she first appeared in a non-nude pictorial in June 1956. Sally"
"Angel in a television production of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ""The Green Pastures"". Helen Dowdy Helen Dowdy was a Broadway actress and singer who played the role of Queenie in the 1946 revival of Kern & Hammerstein's ""Show Boat"" (a role originally played by Tess Gardella in 1927). She created the roles of Lily and the Strawberry Woman in George Gershwin's ""Porgy and Bess"" — roles she played for nearly twenty years in several productions. In the 1951 so-called ""complete"" recording of the opera, she sang both roles as well as that of Maria. Dowdy also appeared on television"
"in both shows). The production starred Tamsier Joof (both shows); Rustie Lee (both shows); Sharon D. Clarke (2000), Victoria Wilson-James (2001), and Kat of MTV (both shows). A production ran at the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, from September 26, 2006, through November 12, 2006, receiving good reviews and extending its run by three weeks. It was directed by Des McAnuff, who, with Harold Wheeler, orchestrator of the original Broadway version, revised the musical for contemporary audiences. It starred Nikki M. James (Dorothy), E. Faye Butler (Evelline) and David Alan Grier (The Wiz), and featured sets by Robert Brill. Dodger"
"productions of ""42nd Street"" and ""Romantic Comedy"" and was the second actress (after Carol Channing) to star as Dolly Levi in ""Hello, Dolly!"" She played Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway production of ""The Three Penny Opera"", starring Lotte Lenya. Cook is a longtime supporter of various AIDS organizations and regularly appears as a featured performer in the annual Los Angeles S.T.A.G.E. benefit. With her actor husband, Tom Troupe, Cook received the 2002 Theatre Ovation Award for Lifetime Career Achievement, the first husband and wife to be so honored. Cook received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Baylor University, the S.T.A.G.E."
"popular than ever, during the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, ""Dolly!"" was seen widely in reruns. On February 27, 2007, ""Dolly!"" was released on DVD under the title of ""Dolly Parton And Friends"", and featured six episodes of the show, among those being the Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt episode, and the Kenny Rogers episode. Dolly! Dolly! was an American variety show starring Dolly Parton that aired in first-run syndication during the 1976–77 season. In the mid-1970s, Parton was approached by Bill Graham, president of Show Biz, Inc., the same company that produced ""The Porter Wagoner Show"" (on"
"history up to that time, surpassing ""My Fair Lady"" and then being surpassed in turn by ""Fiddler on the Roof."" The Broadway production of ""Hello Dolly!"" grossed $27 million. ""Hello, Dolly!"" and ""Fiddler"" remained the longest-running Broadway record holders for nearly ten years until ""Grease"" surpassed them. Dorothy Lamour, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Michele Lee, Edie Adams, and Yvonne De Carlo played the role on tour. Betty White appeared with the Kenley Players as Dolly in the summer of 1979. Molly Picon appeared as Dolly in a 1971 production by the North Shore Music Theatre of Beverly, Massachusetts. Lainie Kazan"
"The latter was a last minute replacement for Margaret Sheridan who became ill days before the performance. Turin heard Sly in February 1928, before the run at La Scala was finished, with the great Nino Piccaluga in the title role and Valeria Manna as Dolly. Dresden and Hannover were the first German cities to hear it, during the autumn, while Nino Piccaluga and Gina Cigna sang it in Trieste. During 1929 the work spread to Venice and Naples, with Carmelo Alabiso and Giuseppe Taccani respectively in the title role. The work started to disappear from Italian stages, but was widely"
"In doing so she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City. The film won three Oscars for Best Art Direction, Best Score of a Musical Picture, and Best Sound and was nominated for a further four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Although the film eventually broke even, it was not a commercial success. In 1890, all of New York City is excited because widowed, brassy Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) is in town (""Call On Dolly""). Dolly makes a living through matchmaking and numerous sidelines (""Just Leave Everything to Me""). She is"
"memorable catchphrases in TV history: ""Tonight (presenter name), I'm going to be..."" and was named most popular entertainment show at the National Television Awards in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. The most impersonated stars are Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Cher, George Michael, Celine Dion, Kylie Minogue and Madonna. In February 1990, Leslie Crowther was chosen as the host of the show which began airing on 21 July 1990. Crowther hosted the first three series, and a Christmas Special in 1991. At the time of his car accident in October 1992, he was booked to record an Elvis Presley special hosted"
"Dame Laurentia was a Benedictine nun and Abbess of Stanbrook from 1931-1953 and an authority on church music. Originally produced as a stage play it first ran at the Apollo Theatre in 1988, with Ray McAnally as Shaw, Sir John Gielgud as Cockerell, and Rosemary Harris as McLachlan. In 1991 it was filmed for television, under the direction by Alvin Rakoff, with Patrick McGoohan as Shaw, Sir John Gielgud, and Dame Wendy Hiller. The play was performed in New York in 1993 with Roy Dotrice as Shaw, Michael Allinson and Diana Douglas, and was revived in 2006 at the Hampstead"
"Dolly Clandon in ""You Never Can Tell"" (1986), and as Eliza Doolittle in ""Pygmalion"" (1987; for which she received her third Tony Award nomination) for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Off-Broadway plays include Beth in Sam Shepard's ""A Lie of the Mind"", and ""Killer Joe"", written by Tracy Letts. She has performed in many of Tennessee Williams' plays, including ""Summer and Smoke"", ""The Gnädiges Fräulein"", ""The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"", and the world premiere of ""The One Exception"". In 1996 Plummer won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the episode ""A Stitch"
"Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. In 1945, 20th Century Fox released the biographical film ""The Dolly Sisters"". June Haver portrayed Rosie, and Betty Grable portrayed Jenny. In 1972, the twenty-fourth episode of the fifth season of ""The Carol Burnett Show"" featured a musical comedy sketch of the sisters' lives called ""The Doily Sisters"", with Carol Burnett as Jenny, Vicki Lawrence as Rosie and Harvey Korman as Henry. Author Terry Pratchett chose to name a part of his fictional city Ankh-Morpork on the Discworld ""Dolly Sisters"". The exploits of the Dolly sisters and their respective relationships with Harry Selfridge are chronicled on"
"was her biological father until she was eighteen. She later changed her name from Gatacre—her mother's first husband was Edward Gatacre—to Wells. Her first cousin is the actress Anna Chancellor. Wells married photographer Mischa Richter in 2000. They have a daughter, Elsie (b. 2002) and a son, Ezra (b. 2005). Both appeared with their mother in ""Doll & Em"". Dolly Wells Dorothy Perpetua Wells (born Gatacre; 5 December 1971) is a British actress and writer. She co-wrote and starred in the Sky Living series ""Doll & Em"" (2014–15) with best friend Emily Mortimer. Her other television roles include ""Star Stories"""
"of toys. For example, Mr. Golly who ran the Toyland garage was replaced by Mr. Sparks who in the new 2004 version of the series appears to be Scottish, and Dinah Doll, described as ""a black, assertive minority female"", was added to the franchise by the BBC during the 1992–1999 series. Noddy first appeared on stage at the 2660-seat Stoll Theatre in Kingsway, London, in 1954. The very large cast were all children or teenagers, mostly from the Italia Conti acting school. There was a full theatre orchestra. The finale was a scene at the ""Faraway Tree"", with many of"
"was negotiating to secure a theatre for 2015. On February 6, 2015, it was confirmed the musical would begin previews at the Adelphi Theatre in London, on August 21, 2015, with its official opening night on September 15. Tickets went on sale on March 2. On April 23, 2015, it was confirmed that Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry would play Charlie and Lola respectively, with other cast members including Amy Lennox as Lauren, Amy Ross as Nicola, Jamie Baughan as Don and Michael Hobbs as George. The West End production became London's first paperless and mobile ticketing operation. Although the"
"to New York to become an actress. Gordon would go on to write three volumes of memoirs in the 1970s: ""My Side"", ""Myself Among Others"" and ""An Open Book"". Gordon continued her stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's ""The Matchmaker"", a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin. In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress for ""Inside"
"Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, the noir, anti-Ku Klux Klan film by Warner Bros., and in ""Monkey Business"" (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, directed by Howard Hawks. In the same year, she also starred in ""We're Not Married!"", also featuring Marilyn Monroe, and in ""Dreamboat"". She played the female lead in ""Tight Spot"" (1955), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson. After a series of unremarkable films, she scored a great popular success on Broadway in 1965, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running ""Hello, Dolly!"". In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire; she presented him"
"were cast in Good Luck Charlie; Mendler had a recurring role on ""Wizards of Waverly Place"" and Dolley starred in ""Cory in the House"" and numerous Disney Channel television movies. ""Variety"" magazine's Brian Lowry says their careers ""[reflect] the Disney Channel's knack for identifying young performers and rolling them from one project to the next, in a fashion reminiscent of the old studio system"". Both Eric Allan Kramer, who plays Bob Duncan, and Leigh-Allyn Baker, who plays Amy Duncan, have also guest starred in preceding Disney Channel shows, and both Kramer and Baker had respectively guest starred in one episode"
"gossip reporter, as a coverup, after Miley accidentally blabbed the Hannah-secret to her; and the second time was when Miley and Lily impersonated Dolly Parton and Miley's ""Mamaw"" Ruthie, respectively, after it came out that Ruthie and Dolly (portrayed by Parton herself) had a fight over Elvis Presley. In an episode of ""Due South"", Season one, episode 10, ""The Gift of the Wheelman"", It's Christmas time and the police station is filled with Santas, elves and Elvises. A season one episode of ""Full House"" had the character Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) play Elvis in a concert. Talent shows focused on"